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...JOVAN D. SAVICH Chicago...
...word, strong. "The scent will stay with you maybe four days," promises-or threatens-Bernard Mitchell, president of Chicago's Jovan, Inc., one of the biggest manufacturers. "It doesn't wash off when you swim or bathe." Its lasting quality has long made it a fixative for other perfumes, but till now its strong odor ruled it out as a separate scent...
...have to admit we were taken completely by surprise," confesses the firm's president, Ralph Taylor. He and other manufacturers set to bottling the stuff, and sales of the fragrance, which retails at about $5 per half-ounce, are now estimated at $1,000,000 per month. Reports Jovan's Mitchell: "J.C. Penney, Bergdorf Goodman's-they all want musk...
...European network, predictably enough, is the Yugoslav. The news is played fairly straight (though the Israelis were labeled "aggressors" in their war with the Arabs). Uniquely in Eastern Europe, Jugoslovenska Radio-Televizija dares a weekly hour of social and political satire. And on a Thursday-night interview show, Host Jovan Sčekic questions government officials with an inquisitorial style reminiscent of the old Mike Wallace; home viewers are invited to phone in sticky questions of their own. Yugoslav audiences, in fact, get plenty of say about programming. At one point after a thunder of complaints, the network uncanceled...
...Communist Yugoslavia, a dictatorship which is trying harder & harder to assume democratic trappings. One day last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were there any other nominations? asked Speaker Josip Vidmar. The Parliament roared with laughter...